5 dead on South, West sides in 12-hour period

Two men were shot to death inside a car in a South Deering neighborhood car wash late Thursday night.

Two men were shot to death inside a car in a South Deering neighborhood car wash late Thursday night. (Peter Nickeas)

Peter NickeasTribune reporter

Six people were shot and five of them died during a bloody 12-hour period between 4 p.m. Thursday and 4 a.m. Friday, according to Chicago police.

Among the dead: two men in their early 30s in a gang-related slaying on the Southeast Side, a 22-year-old former CPS basketball player who recently committed to a Division 1 school for basketball, a 35-year-old clerk at a West Side gas station and a 25-year-old man killed in a drive-by attack in the Park Manor neighborhood.

The lone survivor of the violence was a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the 6700 block of South Carpenter about 11 p.m., police said. He was shot in the arm and torso and treated at Comer Children’s Hospital for his wounds, police said.

A sixth person -- identified as Dennis Jones, 22, of the 8400 block of South Exchange Avenue -- died Thursday at 6:57 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn from gunshot wounds he sustained last weekend near 85th and Exchange avenues, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. An autopsy for Jones is scheduled for Saturday.

The first shooting, a drive-by, happened about 3:50 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Rhodes. The victim was identified as Dominique Ollie, 25, of the 7300 block of South Calumet Avenue, according to the medical examiner's office. An autopsy Friday determined Ollie died of a gunshot wound to the back and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner's office said.

A little more than an hour later, a 22-year-old former Washington High School basketball standout Michael Haynes was killed in the 11600 block of South Vincennes Avenue, police said. He may have been trying to break up a fight, police said.

Just before midnight, Michael L. Hanes, 31, and another still-unidentified man also in his 30s were shot shot multiple times in the head and multiple times in the body. They both died inside a car at a self-serve car wash on 100th Street just east of Torrence Avenue.

Autopsies Friday for Hanes, of the 2500 block of East 106th Street, and the other man determined they died of multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were declared homicides, according to the medical examiner's office.

Early Friday morning, 35-year-old gas station clerk Baker Farhat, of the 7800 block of South Rutherford Avenue in Burbank, was killed in a robbery in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.

Farhat was pronounced dead on the scene at 4:25 a.m. via telemetry from John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County, according to the medical examiner's office.